Plateaus

Our gym is having a biggest loser contest. Prize: 400 dollars. Nice right? I have plans for that money. I'm lucky. [well and not lucky] I am fat. Eating right and exercise has dramatic impact for me. I also spent the last year building a muscle base. I went from panting over 10 pounds on all lifts to 100 pound ab crunches and 110 one legged leg lifts. I put on muscle.

I started this on Jan 5. to date I have lost about 15 pounds in under 3 weeks. [it pays to be fat with a good muscle base and clean up your diet... I really miss my coke classic]

And I have hit the 2 week plateau. I've dropped about 3 pounds in that time. I know I need to shut up and stop whining but you know, it doesn't feel that way.

I know it is all in the head but the contest end date is April 28th. That is part of the whine. I enjoyed that major drop.

Oh whack me on the head with the foam bats from the nerf ball for kids side of the gym...

I've been eyeing up the pizza at Weis. They make the best pizza in their deli. It might do me good have a slice or two and bring myself up to maintenance. I can work it in easily but have been doing a bit lower fat than that. It might work enough to shock the body into losing.

My gym manger at the Y said try some mini workouts on the off days too. About 10 minutes worth to break the routine I am use to doing.

Woah, does eating at matinence really work, whichwayup?? (:My family will call my a pig if I do it though.

And I've been switching up my exercise everyday, but I still plateaued for two weeks also, pjh. Boo.

Good luck! I hope you get out of your pleateau also!

It certainly does for me! I haven't been at one for months and months (that's not really what I consider a plateau anyway - to me that's someone who's just maintaining), but if you generally consistently lose X number of lbs per week and it then stops for 3-6 weeks, that's what I consider a mini plateau.

And to break that, eating at maintenance (or more) for a few days, whilst not exercising, certainly works for me (when I resume my normal eat & exercise regime again) :-)

I'm eating between 1850 and 2000 calories a day. I got rid of the JUNK in the diet and I'm losing that fast. I can eat 3500 and maintain. Can you?

Now if you are done being a critical pain. You can either exit this gracefully or say, You are right. It is all in your head. Hit yourself with a foam bat.

Hasn't effected my HIIT energy one way or the other and sure hasn't changed my poundage on lifting. I'm still doing 3 sets of 100 pounds in Ab crunches and 3 sets of 115 per single leg in leg presses and about to go up.

I am a 5 and half foot tall ,36 year old male and have been gradually gaining weight for the last 15yrs. I had my wake up call when I broke 259lbs.

I made an immediate change and lost almost 20lbs in 3 weeks by limiting my calories to 1800 per day, Drinking more water, switching to whole wheat, eating veggies like carrots and celery for snack, cutting out pop and i started exercising. I have cut out cheese processed or otherwise, reduced the fat in the dairy I still use and increased my fiber.

Other than working out more or starving myself I don't know what else to do. I have hit a wall and stopped at 241.